Guy Lodge Film CriticA shy, introverted farmer’s wife in Schoharie County, New York, Abigail has stopped going to church since the death of her young daughter Nellie.
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It’s an oddly catchy sound, a persistent noise coming from boomboxes and car stereos. Almost no one in “Cut Throat City,” the latest gangster flick from RZA, comments on it, but we know they hear it and we know what it symbolizes.
It’s the sound of rap music on repeat, lingering in the air like a thick, inescapable haze of gun smoke. RZA helped revolutionize this sound in Staten Island, New York, where he co-founded and performed with the group “Wu-Tang Clan” and changed rap forever.
Guy Lodge Film CriticA shy, introverted farmer’s wife in Schoharie County, New York, Abigail has stopped going to church since the death of her young daughter Nellie.
Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmA major shakeup is in the works at APA, the boutique talent agency.Investor Ron Burkle’s investment firm The Yucaipa Companies has made a major non-equity investment in APA, one of the largest diversified talent agencies in the industry with offices in Los Angeles, New York, Nashville, Atlanta, Toronto and London.While specific financials are being kept under wraps, Burkle’s Yucaipa Companies will provide a non-equity financial investment in the privately
They first came together for Taylor Swift. Smooth Technology, a team of artist engineers in Brooklyn, New York, was born when the pop superstar had the crazy idea to feature wirelessly controlled LED costumes in her 1989 World Tour performances.
MTV Video Music Awards may have been the annual awards show's first virtual version, due to the coronavirus pandemic, but that doesn't mean viewers weren't treated to epic performances from today's top artists. This year's performances were moved out of the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, to various outdoor areas around the Big Apple with few, and in some cases no, audiences. Top acts including BTS, Lady Gaga, Ariana Grande, Miley Cyrus, and The Weeknd all performed during the regular
MTV Video Music Awards might look a little different amid the coronavirus pandemic, but winning a Moon Person is still an honor.While Keke Palmer is hosting the 2020 VMAs from the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, several stars are set to appear and perform from home.MTV announced the nominees one month before the Sunday, August 30, ceremony — and Ariana Grande and Lady Gaga lead the pack with nine nominations each.
Pete Davidson movie Big Time Adolescence and now The Binge, Hulu is carving out a very specific niche for itself as the streaming home of druggy teen comedies filmed in the Syracuse, New York area*.
John Lennon has been denied parole for the 11th time. A representative for the New York parole board said Mark Chapman, now 65, was denied parole and will remain behind bars for at least another two years.
Henri Stout Dirt Real Estate EditorCompared to forbiddingly expensive real estate hot spots like Los Angeles, New York and Seattle, where starter homes easily top a million or more bucks, your real estate dollar tends to go a long way in places like in the state of Michigan.
NEW YORK -- Gail Sheehy, the journalist, commentator and pop sociologist whose best-selling “Passages” helped millions navigate their lives from early adulthood to middle age and beyond, has died. She was 83.
A fire that tore through celebrity chef Rachael Ray's upstate New York home started in a fireplace chimney, officials announced Friday. The state Office of Fire Prevention and Control said the Aug.
Cynthia Littleton Business EditorOrganizers of the Tony Awards have set a plan for a virtual presentation of this year’s awards ceremony to be held in the fall.The 74th annual Tony Awards ceremony had been scheduled for June 7 at Radio City Music Hall, but Broadway’s big night was postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Run-DMC‘s Jam Master Jay has spoken out after two men were charged over his death in 2002.The DJ, whose real name was Jason “Jay” Mizell, was fatally shot inside a recording studio in Queens, New York City on October 30, 2002. Mizell’s murder has remained unsolved for nearly two decades.Karl Jordan Jr has been charged with murdering Mizell, as confirmed by the US attorney’s office for New York’s eastern district.
Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticThe case of NXIVM, the Albany, N.Y.-based “self-help group” whose bizarre and seemingly cult-like aspects have been covered widely — merges a sort of enormity of evil with the prosaic in ways that can make it hard to connect with at first. What was done to aspirants within the group, who allege having been starved as well as held down and scarred with a cauterizing pen in order to be marked as slaves, represents perhaps the height of inhumanity.
On March 23, in the year of our pandemic clusterfuck, 9 of our 50 United States issued stay at home advisories for residents as their COVID-19 response: Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Illinois, Louisiana, California, Washington, and Oregon. Since then, most of the remaining states have followed suit.
LOS ANGELES -- The annual Lucille Ball Comedy Festival is going virtual with help from Tiffany Haddish, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Margaret Cho, “Weird Al” Yankovic and more than two-dozen others working in the realm of humor. The festival, presented by the National Comedy Center in Jamestown, New York, will stream conversations with the artists over three weekends, starting Friday and running through Aug.